JoeN's BlogXNA ShamanVisual Studio SP1 released- December 18, 2006 Visual Studio SP1 has just been released. I'd encourage anyone using XNA Game Studio Express to install it. This SP has a number of fixes in it and from personal use it unblocks some Vista related issues. Remember to install the Express version of the SP.http://blogs.msdn.com/joen/archive/2006/12/18/visual-studio-sp1-released.aspx Maybe is just another word for no- December 18, 2006 My five year old told me this the other night as I was putting him to bed :-). It's amazing how many things kids understand. Hey, I asked a team for a feature the other day and they said maybe...http://blogs.msdn.com/joen/archive/2006/12/18/quot-maybe-is-just-another-word-for-no-quot.... Where's the content- December 12, 2006 As a programmer I can understand code but I have littleno artistic talent. One of the key things we wanted to address with XNA Game Studio Express is making content a first class citizen in the IDE. A lot of people today have two completely different systems when they build their game: one for code and one for content. Building content is a non-trivial task involving exporting, normalizing and processing content and then sequencing this with a relevant code build. We wanted to make this...http://blogs.msdn.com/joen/archive/2006/12/12/where-s-the-content.aspx Your World. Your Game.- December 12, 2006 Relatively old news (well 12 hours to be exact) but we shipped the first version of XNA Game Studio Express today. Michael has some information about it here. Shipping always makes me a little reflective and I wanted to share the fact that I have been a PM at Microsoft for over 7 years and have worked on two products: C XNA Game Studio Express I've had a lot of the different PM positions on these teams but it's amazing that I have "only" worked on two products. I joined.http://blogs.msdn.com/joen/archive/2006/12/11/your-world-your-game.aspx The Escapist- December 7, 2006 I always look forward to the Escapist, it's always well written and it has interesting topics. If you haven't seen it you should take a look.http://blogs.msdn.com/joen/archive/2006/12/06/the-escapist.aspx Experiences with Vista- December 6, 2006 I moved my main laptop over to Vista about two months ago and overall I'm really happy with the switch (I have been using Vista on my second machine for much longer on various builds available inside the company). I really like Vista, it has major upgrades all over the place, way too many to list here. With every upgrade I not only see the major changes but I tend to pay attention to the smaller aspects that change how I work everyday. Some of the smaller things that I have noticed are: ...http://blogs.msdn.com/joen/archive/2006/12/05/experiences-with-vista.aspx XNA Game Studio Express and DEMMX- December 5, 2006 I posted an entry on the XNA team blog about how XNA Game Studio Express won an award at the recent DEMMX awards. Boyd and I had a lot of hassles actually getting there because of a unfortunate flight time and then delays at the airport. The hotel the awards were at was very nice but we had a really short stay in LA (less than 12 hours) so it was pretty rushed. It was an interesting event, mixing music, TV and the games industry. An especially interesting part was two songs by Sandra...http://blogs.msdn.com/joen/archive/2006/12/05/xna-game-studio-express-and-demmx.aspx |